I have just returned from a 3 day hike in the Wild Dogs with my daughter Ruby and her friend Adrian. This walk is part of my book "Into the Blue: Walking Gundungurra country". We were walking in wet weather, not ideal -

Large satisfied leech
hauls itself away
from Adrian's socks



- but how else could we take ourselves to Splendour Rock?

Between us
and the walls of Kanangra
bellbirds

Don't forget that a haiku day is coming up at Blackheath Area Neighbourhood Centre, in mid-May. See my post below for details.